The mournful demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka / Josef Skvorecky

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, c1987Description: 288 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 393024709
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • FIC .S58 1987
Contents:
I. The supernatural powers of lirutenant boruvka -- II. The sax solo -- III. The scientific method -- IV. Death on needlepoint -- V. Whose deduction? -- VI. The case of the horizontal trajectory -- VII. A tried and proven method -- VIII. Falling light -- IX. Aristotelian logic -- X. The end of an old tom-cat -- XI. His easiest case -- XII. Crime in a girls' high school.
Summary: Czechoslovak police force Lieutenant Boruvka, a pensive, conscience-striken man driven to melancholy by the fiendish truths of murder, is wide awake to the strange methods of murder he encounters, in this collection of twelve tales.
Item type: Books - Fiction
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Books - Fiction Books - Fiction National University - Manila LRC - Annex Fiction Fiction FIC .S58 1987 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000003587

I. The supernatural powers of lirutenant boruvka -- II. The sax solo -- III. The scientific method -- IV. Death on needlepoint -- V. Whose deduction? -- VI. The case of the horizontal trajectory -- VII. A tried and proven method -- VIII. Falling light -- IX. Aristotelian logic -- X. The end of an old tom-cat -- XI. His easiest case -- XII. Crime in a girls' high school.

Czechoslovak police force Lieutenant Boruvka, a pensive, conscience-striken man driven to melancholy by the fiendish truths of murder, is wide awake to the strange methods of murder he encounters, in this collection of twelve tales.

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